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You learn a lot about the surface tension of raindrops when your windshield wiper is busted. On my sap and salt stained windshield, you have to achieve more than 50 mph before they move appreciably.

It is so no fair that when a windshield wiper goes out, it has to be the driver's side. I don't recall ever having trouble with a passenger side wiper. My wiper went all floppy the other day, when there was all the snow and ice. With a big cracking sound, it flung itself dramatically off the windshield and draped itself limply over the side mirror. Some piece of it still flopped around noisily somewhere inside the skin of my vehicle under the windshield, in a most alarming way.

There's been a lot of rain lately. Sigh. Well, it's no worse than trying to drive when you have a migraine coming on, and I've done that too.

So I heard on the radio that the new acting governor wants to accelerate the rebate checks coming to property taxpayers, from when they were overtaxed. They are supposed to get checks that gradually increase in value and then begin to decrease again, I think peaking in 2003. He wants to mail the bigger checks now, because tax revenues have been strong and are expected to remain high. I say, tax revenues are expected to remain high.

Something strikes me as wrong with this picture. They are going to REFUND people's TAXES if current TAXES keep coming in. They are employing people to do the math, cut the checks, mail them, honor them, etc. They are doing this to send back to the taxpayer the same stuff the taxpayer is sending in. Maybe I am just a doofus, but wouldn't it make a bit more sense to tell Jane Propertyholder, "Hey, Jane, you are a little ahead on your taxes right now, howbout you pay us less next time?" They wouldn't have to put the total refund in the credit; they could gradually issue the credits the same way they are gradually issuing the checks. Couldn't they?  

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